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											<strong>Daniel P. Abrams</strong>
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											Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1979
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											Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013
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											<strong>Bassem Andrawes</strong>
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											Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Structures), Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005
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											<strong>Eun Jeong Cha</strong>
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											Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012
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											<strong>C. Armando Duarte</strong>
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											Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin, 1996
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											<strong>Ahmed E. Elbanna</strong>
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											Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2011
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											<strong>Larry A. Fahnestock</strong>
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											Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Lehigh University, 2006
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											<strong>Paolo Gardoni</strong>
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											Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 2002
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											<strong>James M. LaFave</strong>
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											Ph.D. in Civil (Structural) Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1997
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											<strong>Oscar Lopez-Pamies</strong>
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											Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania and École Polytechnique, 2006
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											<strong>Arif Masud</strong>
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											Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics, Stanford University, 1993
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											<strong>Glaucio H. Paulino</strong>
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											Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Cornell University, 1995
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											<strong>Billie F. Spencer Jr.</strong>
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											Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1985
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